“But as the climate warms many experts expect encounters to rise”?
Horsecrap!
“Horsecrap!”
That’s usually my reaction, too, but we were 27 degrees warmer than usual last week. That’s a six to seven sigma deviation from the normal mid March average. Today we are only 17 degrees warmer than the March 28 average. 6-7 SD just doesn’t occur by chance.
There’s no doubt the heat has brought the reptiles out earlier than normal.
As far as Mama was concerned there were only two kinds of snakes. And every chance she got, she did her part to make it one kind of snake.
Follow the Left’s “logic” on this for a short distance and you will learn that falling into a bush causes “the climate to warm”.